Dr Emily Burdett

Research Associate

Emily is a research associate at the Brain, Belief, and Behaviour research group at Coventry University as well as associated with University of Oxford’s Cognition and Culture lab. She is a child developmental psychologist and uses cross-cultural, evolutionary, comparative and developmental approaches. Her research explores various aspects of how ‘culture’ originates and is transmitted. She explores particular cultural phenomenon such as the development of supernatural and human agent concepts, morality, conformity, skill learning and problem solving, and tool creation.